Source: “The Magician’s Nephew” (1955) 76. Wants “All get what they want they do not always like it.”

Mirrors “We are mirrors whose brightness is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.” Love “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.” Conceit “If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.” Behavior “When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world.” Change “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. Bad “No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good.” Sacrifice “The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self - all your wishes and precautions - to Christ.” Service “It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.” Source: “Out of the Silent Planet” (1938) 85. Remember “A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.” Vulnerable “To love at all is to be vulnerable.” Free Will “There are only two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, ‘All right, then, have it your way.’” Joy “I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.” Source: “The Screwtape Letters” (1942) 89. The Future “The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.” Interruptions “The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life.” All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career.” Mothers “The homemaker has the ultimate career. Source: “The Abolition of Man” (1943) 92. Education “The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.” Preach “Jesus Christ did not say, ‘Go into all the world and tell the world that it is quite right.’” Choice “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” Grief “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.” Goodness “There is but one good that is God.

Source: “The Abolition of Man” (1943) 97. Honor “We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.” Joy “Joy is the serious business of heaven.” Source: “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature” (1966) 99. Brave “Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage.” Each quote is presented as a Pinterest picture in this gallery.

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